>> bill: good morning, everybody, it is friday. friday, october 26th. so good to see you today. welcome to the "full court press" here on current tv. this is your new progressive morning show. good to have you was. we have lots and lots to talk about today, and take your calls of course. and now hurricane sandy is heading our way, a combination of a winter storm and hurricane that forecasters are calling the perfect storm or frankenstorm. batten down the hatches. we'll get out of here before it

strikes, and we'll get right to the news of the day, but first we get the latest from lisa ferguson out in los angeles. >> hi bill frankenstorm that does not sound good. good morning, everyone. the president has three interviews from the white house this morning. in the morning he is spoking from the oval office and then he is live for an mtv interview from the house. finally he has an interview with april ryan. mitt romney starts his speech from aims iowa aids say it is important but they won't say what is in it so we'll have to wait and see. and then romney flies back to canton ohio.

ohio is seen as the most important swing state in this election. here is the president there yesterday. >> obama: if mitt romney had been president when the auto try was on the verge of collapse we might not have an american auto industry today. >> you can see that appealing to the worker-class voters. early voting could give president obama theed a advantage. ho stopped off to vote early yesterday. more bill press is coming up live after the break, and as always we are love in chat and would love to see you there. we can join us there at current.com/billpress. see you on the other side of the break. highest priority on election

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you didn't say the right words. >> bill: i didn't follow the teleprompter. >> that's right. >> bill: good morning, everybody great to see you. thanks for joining us. we go into the weekend with a great big day here on the "full court press" as the campaign heats up for these final 12 days, i think it is by now of this election 2012. we will dive into all of the big stories of the day and take your calls, of course, and 866-55-press. not only your calls by your tweets at twitter @bpshow. your facebook comments and your comments in our chat room. go to current.com. they provide this great big

hall, chat room virtual, of course, where you all can join forces with your fellow full court pressers. so we welcome you and our good team press here. peter ogburn and dan henning. >> friday! >> bill: friday, how about it. dan is there he is just busy -- >> good morning. >> bill: preoccupied. and siprion bolling as the cameras, thank god. everything ready? ready for the weekend? >> dollment right. gearing up for the storm of course. >> bill: right hurricane sandy head our way. and i was really really pleased that president joe biden yesterday went out for the memorial service for senator george mcgovern who passed away at the age of 90 earlier in the

week. telling the senator daughters your dad was a real american hero. he was a decorated pilot, and he never talked about his service in the military but indeed it was a significant -- and joe biden said he ought to get credit for it. >> your father who was characterized by these right-wing guys as a coward and unwilling to fight. your father was a genuine hero, it used to make me so angry that your father would never speak up and talk about his heroism. >> bill: and joe biden said we democrats today owe a great debt to the man who founded in fact today's modern democratic party. brought the democratic party where it is today. >> open it to women young people minorities.

he is the father of the modern democratic party. your father is the father the of the modern democratic party. [ applause ] >> bill: yes, george mcgovern, great democrat and great american. what a lineup today, we have a couple of great americans, senator sherrod brown who is going to win reelection in ohio with our help joe donnelly who is going to be the next senator with our help. and get this -- i have an excuse to have a playboy magazine today because we're going to talk to the author of a magazine, which of course, i only get for the articles. >> of course. god bless america. >> bill: that's right. but first --

>> announcer: this is the "full court press." >> making news on this friday. home team dominance in the world series. madison bum gartner was on fire last night. struck out eight to help propel the giants to a 2-0 shutout victory over the tigers in game 2. the series now moves to detroit for game 3 tomorrow night. >> bill: pressure in detroit. >> that was a tough game to watch last night. >> bill: it was, and it was so slow. and the tension in the park because they were used to getting out early racking up a big lead and then holding on to it, and this, nothing was happening, nothing was happening, nothing was happening -- >> it was the bottom of the 7th before anybody scored. >> bill: yes.

>> when listening to people for advice on how to succeed in life the president is a good source. president obama answered a question from a 16-year-old reader of "us" weekly magazine. president obama said be careful what you post on facebook. he then went on to note they should take some education seriously. the president does have some experience, he has 31 million fans. >> bill: we have seen a lot of people say very dumb things on facebook. >> and twitter. >> oprah winfrey said she wants to appear on broadway. he is said she wants nothing more to go on the great white way in a player musical. she is starring in a small role

in a play yesterday, stars of they film include robin williams and others. >> bill: speaking of tweets. we found one today. >> i have been itching to read this since i read it last night. twitter went sort of crazy last night, because not only did you have meatloaf appearing with mitt romney, but twitter exploded over the weirdness of that, but then chuck grassley -- >> bill: you know the senator from iowa. >> that's the one. he tweets himself. >> bill: and he has had some pretty bizarre tweets in his career. >> perhaps none weirder than this one that he wrote last

night. no context provided. fred and i hit a deer on highway 136 south of diresville.% after i pulled fenner rubbing on tire we continued to farm. assume deer dead. [ laughter ] >> so that's how chuck grassley spent his night last night. >> bill: couldn't he tell? >> there is a pretty clear way to know. but where to begin with that. >> bill: i know. >> we continue to farm. i don't know if they continued on to a farm -- >> stephanie: but who is fred? >> yeah right. i have no idea. no idea. [ laughter ] >> bill: and was he on horseback or -- >> yeah, right.

>> bill: all right. peter will be following your tweets maybe on more serious topics this morning. >> @bpshow. >> bill: mitt romney refusing yesterday to stand up and repudiate richard mourdock. still the controversy over what richard mourdock said a few nights ago in a debate with joe donnelly. where he said his faith told him that he could not make an exception in the case -- with abortion -- not even in the case of rape, because he said even rape is part of god's plan and if you get pregnant that is something that god intended. the outrage of that, at first

even john mccain came up and said no, this is not what the republican party is all about. but yesterday, there were more republicans who stood up with richard mourdock including josh mendel. again -- like scott brown in massachusetts at least was smart enough to say, oh no, no no. absolutely wrong. what he said. no, josh mandel who is running for senate in ohio appearing yesterday, said no he's a good man, richard mourdock. >> he's a gentlemen. he's a class act. a thoughtful guy. he will make a great united states senator. i think yesterday he apologized for his comments and i think he was right for apologizing for them. i disagree with the comments he made. but the liberal media will do everything they can no twist and turn things that conservatives

say, you know, i think richard is the man who would make a terrific united states senator he is a conservative and stands on principal. >> bill: don't you love it. blame the liberal media. >> i'm tired of that. >> bill: blame the liberal media for twisting and turning. here is a quick point. he does not stand alone. remember he had todd akin up against claire mccaskill who says well if i's legitimate rape a woman's body knows. reject those sperms because it's coming from legitimate rape. legitimate rape, or what is the opposite of legitimate rape? rape you want. the whole concept is just disgusting. paul ryan himself in the house

with todd akin and with richard mourdock sponsored legislation. over 100 republicans that signed this legislation to redefine rape so say that you could only consider having an abortion if it was the result of forcible rape, as if there is any other kind of rape. this is not just richard mourdock out there by himself. he is part of a core us. and then here is mitt romney again yesterday, three different times, reporters asked him what about richard mourdock? are you going to withdrawal your endorsement of richard mourdock? are you going to still run that one tv spot? peter alexander from nbc news reports on romney's refusals.

>> three times today he ignored questions about richard mourdock the senator from indiana who made controversial comments about rape. >> bill: -- and romney just ignores him and moves on. and the question is why? wouldn't it be easy for romney to say this is not who the republican party is. >> our friend sam youngman from reiters was on the road yesterday, and he said at a breakfast stop me steve peoples, and lisa lehrer from bloomberg asked romney repeatedly about mourdock and he didn't respond. >> bill: this should not be complicated, right? and this proves what the republican party is all about.

you tell me what you think, 866-55-press. it shows that he doesn't have any courage. and it's an insult to all american women, especially to the 207,000 american women who are victims of rape in this country, which is always a violent act, and usually ends up they are getting brutalized and victimized, and physically hurt as part of the rape. 207,000 women in this country of whom 5% end up pregnant. and mitt romney will say nothing about it. let's talk about it. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." ♪ let's hear yours. politically direct means no b.s. just telling you what's going on in politics today. >>at the only on-line forum with

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>> obama: i -- i don't know how these guys come up with these ideas. let me make a very simple proposition. rape is rape. it is a crime. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." >> bill: that's all you have to say about it. why don't mitt romney say that what president obama said the other night on dave ledderman. rape is rape. just stop trying to redefine it. narrow it. there is forcible rape legitimate rape. rape is rape. president obama is right. >> tweeting @bpshow this morning. the war on women is just one thing on the list of things you

can't apologize for. roscoe says whatever happened to blaming the devil. these foul christians now claim that everything is just god's will, and they endorse it. it is sick. >> bill: yeah. sic. sic. sic. deea is in el paso texas. >> caller: good morning, i'm a wife mother, and grandmother, and i'm a woman. there's no explanation what this man said about being raped. so a woman to have herself taken brutally it is a hurtful thing. second of all, to bear a child

out of that. god didn't want that. a child should be conceived out of love. i should want you to touch me and love touching me. for this man to comment and say that, i wonder if he is married, has a daughter or granddaughter that has experienced any type of brutality like that. you will never know the years and tears that a woman will experience for being raped. it's a brutal act. >> bill: absolutely deea either they don't understand or they don't give a damn. i didn't figure it out. thank you so much for the call. karen up in buffalo, new york. >> caller: good morning, bill. i'm here in conservative talk radio land. >> bill: i know. >> caller: i just want to make one comment, and first of all any woman that votes for this guy or romney for that matter, i

don't know where her head issying, but going back to the 47% comment, and todd akin and this guy mourdock. they make these comments and it's not even a slip of a tongue, these are actual like conversations they had where they knew exactly what they were saying, and i think they only answer for them or try toes cape the run when they are called on it. >> caller: yeah, and then they try to blame it on the liberal media. that's an excellent point. this is what they believe. this is what paul ryan and mitt romney believe. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." ♪ system collapses and then they vote on november 6th but just as importantly to take the time to learn about each candidate's

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♪ >> announcer: this is the "full court press." the "bill press show." live on your radio and on current tv. >> bill: you got it. 33 minutes after the hour. on friday, october 26th. good to see you today. thanks for being part of the "full court press," coming to you live from our nation's capitol. we're talking about republican attempts to redefine rape. why? so say in effect well in some cases rape is okay. as long as it is not forcible rape, and also trying to explain mitt romney's refusal to repudiate republican attempts to say in some cases rape is okay.

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>> @bpshow ramona says these men are stick. these republicans treat women as they would any farm animal. >> bill: yes. by the way some of these points are made by nancy cohen in this article we're going to talk about. mel is calling from port st. lucy florida. >> caller: morning bill. these guys should naturally be held accountable, but what kind of women do they have at home -- i got two daughters and a wife. what kind of home do they have where their women allow them to

sound like totally morons? >> bill: that's a good question. i wonder about that mel. what does ann romney think when her husband refuses to repudiate richard mourdock's comments. is she going to stand up there and say, well you know, rape is not so bad. >> caller: right. the bottom line don't follow them home. >> bill: that's a really, really good yes mel. andrew in long island. hey, andrew. >> caller: hey, i just wanted to comment about some of these fundamentalist nut jobs basically, and if you think about what mourdock and people like him actually believe that there is a divine power that is controlling off of us then his conclusion is really reasonable but that's why he should be

afraid of these people because they don't take responsibility for anything. it's just god's will. >> bill: yeah, i think they used to call that determinism or something -- i forget now, but everything -- god plans everything, and god is responsible for everything. like we don't have any free will anymore, right? but i made this point, andrew if -- if rape is part of god's plan then murder is part of god's plan. >> exactly, you send it any further than they already do it becomes ridiculous and we can't have a society. this idea, this predestination that we are doing well -- >> bill:. absolutely. and, you know, it is disgusting in and of itself disgusting to try to legitimate rape in any fashion whatsoever, as president said, rape is rape it's a

crime. disgusting to try to redefine it especially disgusting when as richard mourdock did you try to wrap it in your faith, and say this is what the bible tells me. yeah, show me where in the bible it says that. melissa, in virginia hi melissa. >> caller: hi, how are you? >> bill: good. thanks for joining us. what is your comment. >> caller: i don't get these people mourdock ryan romney. i have an 18-year-old daughter and i have two sons. how in the world -- what is so scary -- i don't understand how he can make these comments but they really believe it. that's what is so scary. this is the new face of the republican party. >> bill: it is. >> caller: and the other thing

on women's rights the women who would vote for these buffoons i just don't understand it. >> bill: i don't either. melissa you say you don't get these people. i don't get the women who would vote for them you know? >> caller: exactly. >> bill: i just don't understand it. it is like the chicken voting for colonel sanders. >> it fits. >> bill: it fits. they are against the interest of women in this country. no doubt about it. there is a republican war on women. it has been lead by paul ryan and todd akin and richard mourdock and the united states house of representatives, and joe walsh too, another buffoon. and it has been endorsed by mittens himself. sean is out in los angeles. >> caller: hey, bill what hand

with [ inaudible ] with career suicide? >> bill: i'm sorry, i missed that. go ahead again. >> caller: one moment, i put -- >> bill: that's -- that's the problem, sean we have a problem with your cell phone, and it didn't come through here. so while we're in los angeles, hollywood, steve hello, steve. >> caller: hi, great show as always. i wanted to mention what a pleasure it was to see colin powell come back on the scene. to not only endorse president obama but to just basically wash away this nonsense in the republican party. and you see what a strong person the republican party used to have in their ranks. >> bill: we would not being the discussion we're having this

morning if colin powell were the leader of the republican party, or people like him. but colin powell certainly represents them. what a contrast. >> caller: a total contrast. and you can see the thinly veiled disdain he was trying to hold back when he was describing the republican party and mitt romney and his flip plopping and etch-a-sketch all the time. it was really a pleasure to see him out will. >> bill: excellent point. when he gave that endorsement colin powell said here is why i'm endorsing president obama. and it was like a campaign commercial. he did this this, this this. it was real great. point number 1. point number 2 of course john sununu just to show you what these people are really made of.

john sununu came out yesterday and said -- here he is in effect colin powell endorsed barack obama because he is black. >> i like the fact that george herbert bush has endorsed mitt romney all along, and when you look at colin powell you have to wonder if that is based on issues or whether or not he has a slightly different reason for endorsing president obama. >> what reason would that be. >> when you have somebody of your own race -- >> wow. >> bill: what does john sununu have to say for mitt romney to say, you are fired. >> really. >> bill: that is the most racist remark i have heard ever.

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the comments of richard mourdock, shifting now to a real storm heading up the east coast. expected to slam the east coast early next week. they are calling it franken storm. starting with hurricane sandy. meteorologist with the weather channel. hey, ray, thanks for being here. >> good morning. >> bill: hurricane sandy where is she now and what can we expect. >> it is located about 485 miles south, southeast of charleston south carolina. that's the center of the storm. so we don't paid a tension to just the center of the storm. the diameter of the site overnight has grown 120 miles. overnight. in the last 18, 24 hours, it has

grown in diameter too. wig storm, big wind field. the strongest winds right around the center of the storm, and that would mean coastal flooding for many of the big cities in the east and could be a pretty big snow event back in the interior. >> bill: so it is a category 2 now or -- >> category 1. category 1 at 80 miles an hour. we're not forecast to get to cat 2. so that's some good news. >> bill: and when would it -- at this rate when would it hit florida? >> it's not going to be a direct fit on florida right now they are seeing impacts. showers and gusty winds and

beach erosion. the worst of it today, and as you get into tomorrow maybe around jacksonville, and that's where the big football game is going on tomorrow. georgia/florida, the world's largest cocktail party. florida goes at an angle to the northwest, so jacksonville will be spared the brunt of the storm, but as the u.s. coastline starts jutting out to the east that's where it is going to get worst. >> bill: so if we're talking baltimore, philadelphia, we're talking monday tuesday? >> one model says earlier monday/tuesday mid-atlantic and the american model says

tuesday/wednesday, and that would be northwest new england. and another model says new york city point of impact. this could be worse than irene, because this storm will hold its strength, back off as usual, and then feed into the winter storm. this is why it's unusual, because everybody is going to be watching it. it is going to look like it is going to go out to sea and then it looks like it will be pulled back towards the west. >> bill: irene was the one where there was so much flooding in the northeast. >> yes, this is going to be flooding rains very strong winds, and with the right angle for place like chesapeake bay,

the south shores of long island and even into new york city if it comes in at the right angle. and it could be a worse-case scenario for some of those places. >> bill: i think maryland is probably drawn -- >> yes. >> i have a very important question, wednesday is halloween, and i have two kids at home that are going to freak out -- if they go out. what is going to happen on halloween. >> it will be a weakening storm, but still strong high pressure gusty winds, with the snow starts to fly higherel indications in parts of west virginia and parts of ohio and pennsylvania too. >> bill: so it sounds like washington, d.c. is going to be

okay. >> if we still have power. >> yes, but we're still talking three, four hours out. >> bill: ray living on the east coast i have heard a lot of hurricane predictions and it peters out. so what are the chances of the worst-says scenario? >> i say personally it's too early to tell. you get out a day or two before these events, and that's when the accuracy becomes the best. there's a better chance than not that there will be significant impact. >> bill: ray i know this is a busy time for you guys so you are really good to spend some time with us. >> no problem. >> bill: thanks so much.

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the top of the hour. robert says if i take out my neighbor saying god wanted me to do it, it is go defense. i go to prison possibly death row. linda adds one of the casualties of war are women being raped. there are no way to defend these people's comments. and no way to defend mitt romney refusing to repudiate richard mourdock. it's a crime!

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>> bill: good morning, everybody. it is friday, october 26th. great to see you today, and welcome to the "full court press" here on current tv. so good to see you today. thanks for joining us, and don't hesitate to give us a call at 866-55-press or join us on twitter @bpshow. in its latest issue, playboy magazine warns if elected mitt romney and paul ryan would try to shut down any recreational sex. that's a reason to get out and

vote. all right. we'll tell you all about it and interview the author of that story in playboying a mean. but first the latest from lisa ferguson out in los angeles. >> good morning, everybody. it seems republicans just can't stay away from offensive rape comments this season. still no official policy from richard mourdock. several gop candidates are still supporting him including mitt romney and now ohio senate nominee, josh mendel. many women would likely disagree, and now tina faye is helping to stand up for women. here she is on wednesday. >> i wish we could have an honest and respectful dialogue about these complicated issues

but it seems like we can't right now. >> looks like we're having a little bit of problem with that clip, but she says if she has to listen with one more gray-faced man with a $2 haircut explain what rape is she is going to lose her mind. no one actually expects president obama to lose the women vote, but he could have some making up to do if you put any faith in the polls. he is losing ground with women against romney despite the fact his policies are generally regarded as better for women especially when it comes to contraception access and equal pay in the workplace. more bill after the break. only time you can get to a polling place. make sure that voting is your highest priority on election

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>> announcer: broadcasting across the nation, on your radio, and on current tv this is the "bill press show." >> bill: yes it's not just hurricane barack obama heading our way, we just learned it is hurricane sandy as well. they are calling it frankenstorm. batten down the hatches. good morning, everybody. here we go. it is friday october 26th. this is the "full court press" coming to you live on your local progressive radio station and on current tv. we invite you to join the program, join the conversation any way you can or care to.

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>> i want to hear some juicy stories -- >> bill: frank and i had an oath of silence. >> i can't do that. or i wouldn't be able to safely walk the streets -- >> bill: frank was a good boss because he let me do whatever i wanted. i was there with pat buchanan, and john sununu and it was a pretty wild crowd. >> those were the days, man. >> bill: absolutely. thanks to granger every friday we salute somebody who gets things done. by the way, i guess we have to start by saying the giants did it again last night. they are now two up on the detroit tigers. they beat them 2-0. but it was the first game of the world series where we saw somebody get it down, the panda

himself knocking one out of the park, in the 1st, 3rd, and 5th inning. he joins legendary, babe ruth reggie jackson, and albert pujols to do that. >> he got it done. >> bill: that is getting it done. click on ganger.com or stop by one of their branches. granger for those who get things done. we'll hear from sherrod brown. and we'll talk the press

secretary for the obama campaign. but first, dan has the headlines. >> other new makes headlines this morning. ann romney said she feeds her entire family on a budget. she says she just heads to cosco. she can feed the whole group for under $150. mrs. romney said she loves costco which is interesting since the owner is a supporter of mitt romney. >> bill: i love costco. >> the romneys could buy cosco. like the whole chain. >> bill: yeah. >> apple is entering the online

radio market. it could go live as early as january if all licensing agreements work out. pandora stock took a big hit yesterday with that news. apple says they will give listeners more flexibility than pandora does. >> that's interesting. >> bill: what is the app for music now? >> pandora. it's different than i heart radio. >> i'm not sure -- i'm not sure how much more innovation they can bring to this. >> they are apple. >> tens of billions of dollars worth. >> good point. >> one of america's most famous tourist action opens tomorrow, the stature of liberty will

reopen. and thanks to a new elevator, folks with mobility issues can now get much closer to the top. >> bill: i thought you were going to say the washington monument. >> yeah, that won't be for a while. >> bill: all right. why did you start this face the facts usa dot org. >> well, i started it bill to pull a famous line i was mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. i think it a "time" this week that has a cover war of facts. so i -- want to fact check everything that you or the can

dateds say but just put some amazing facts out there. we launched on july 31st 100 days before the election, we paraded out a fact a day. we divided it up into ten categories deficit, jobs energy/environment infrastructure, social security, medicare, ten facts per category. today is i think fact number 8 #, and we give people a very visual fact. sometimes it's an makes. sometimes it's a slide show, and we tell them where the information comes from and then we say what others say about the facts. because you can debate the fact but start with the fact. >> bill: aren't we supposed to start with the fact. >> there is a concept.

>> bill: yeah. siprion i don't know if you can pick up this website -- >> click on the lower left -- click on the red thing in the middle. >> this one -- >> right in the middle. the big red screen there, and it will expand on today's fact. and what a coincidence as hurricane sandy barrels this way, that we tell you how many billions of dollars have been lost to these gigantic storms and natural disasters. some of which you can tie to climate change if you believe it. >> bill: yeah, 60 billion in damages. that's factcheckusa.org.

yeah this is the microphone. [ laughter ] >> bill: let's start with energy/environment. how are we doing in terms of energy policy in this country? do we have an energy plan? are we moving towards energy dependence. >> we don't have an energy plan. we are moving towards energy security. we're not going to bring in all of the power that we need exclusively. but the natural gas frac-ing is actually a great thing, because it is home-grown stuff. natural gas is growing. it's up 9% last year. while coal is declining. one of the misleading things you have heard in the campaign is the reason the coal plants are shutting down is because of

regulations from the obama administration. the obama administration has in fact tightened regulations on coal. it is much harder to build a new coal plant. the reason coal is in decline is because natural gas is a fraction of what coal costs. that's what is happening. >> >> bill: absolutely. the economics are favoring natural gas and not -- plus with coal you have the -- related issues of the cutting off the mountain tops and the greenhouse gases and all of that other stuff -- >> natural gas is much cleaner, so natural gas is going up while coal is coming down. the fact of the matter is and this will be unsettling if you are a obama fan, and a fan of renewables, when we talk about green jobs bill, even now, we

are talking about a fracture of the number of jobs in renewable energy as fossil fuel energy. there are about 130,000 in renewable energy -- >> bill: because it is still an infant industry. >> yes. >> bill: every time i hear mitt romney or paul ryan say, they spent $90 billion on wind and solar, i want obama to say damn right, and we'll spending a lot more. >> yes but the fact is we still get single digits worth of our power from wind and solar. they are growing, but they are still tiny and more expensive in terms of what you pay now. if you tax the carbon it's a different equation but right

now. >> bill: george washington university you worked there and i played there, and it is a great, great school. >> it is a great school. we have our fact factory there. >> bill: yeah but the goal of facethefactsusa is you lay the facts and people can do with it what they want. >> yes. you are welcome to use it and youth use it in your show, and site facts along the way. but we are giving people discussion guides and other tools they can use. >> bill: let's talk about social security medicare. we know the charge that president obama stole

$716 billion from social security. we hear social security is broke and about to go bust. what are the facts. >> when franklin roosevelt signed social security in 1935. you as an average male could expect to live to about 62. now you are expected to live to about 80. when it was signed into law there was about 16 workers paying social security for every retiree. today there are three. social security is the biggest single item in the bucket that is untouchable, in terms of debate about 55% of the budget is locked in by law, and social security is the biggest item on there. it is not broke. it is not broke today and it won't be broke for another 20 years or so. and even on the it is not going to be short, it may come up

short. look at the facts, folks and then there are choices that can be made. allan greenspan said it would take us about 18 minutes to solve the issue of social security and about eight minutes of that would be greeting each other. >> bill: right. medicare is -- >> medicare is number 2 on the list. >> bill: that's another story. we'll come back and talk about medicare. we have saved a seat for you hear at the table. we'll be right back. >> announcer: chatting with you live at current.com/billpress. this is the "bill press show." live on your radio, and current tv. ♪ learn about each candidate's

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>> announcer: this is the "bill press show." >> bill: here we go. twenty-five minutes after the hour. when we come back after the break, we're going to be talking to nancy cohen who is the author of the article called screwed. in playboy magazine. >> you read all of the good stuff. >> he is well read. >> and frank sesno is here with

us. they launched their new website about 88 days ago. frank, we -- it is facethefactsusa.org. so what is the truth of medicare? >> it is pretty scary. we had a fact the other day that showed the average hospital stay in america has doubled in cost in the last ten years. we are paying huge amounts for our medical care and this not affordable. another fact as i mentioned earlier, 55% of the federal budget is locked in law. the biggest is social security, the next one down is medicare the next down is medicaid. >> bill: but social security is easy to fix, medicare is not. >> medicare is harder.

deciding who gets what which hospital gets what? how much a doctor is going to get paid. doctors opt out, and then you have a harder time getting it nailed. we'll say no you are going to pay more. and the highest two items on the pentagon budget the other night in the debate we hear this big divide from the two candidates in the debate. you know what the two biggest costs in the military budget are? health care and -- you know what your typical premium might be for health care in the military. $5 a month. i don't take anything away, you work for your country, you served -- the question is -- and

this is what we have to start with the facts. what can we afford what can we not? you can't have that conversation unless you know what you're talking about. >> bill: right. we have to start with the facts. we have just run out of time so you are going to do your homework friends, go to phasethefacts usa.org. >> sign up get use get one a day. we'll continue after the election, and then we'll deal with facts about governance. oh, my god. >> bill: thank you frank. >> good to see you. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." ♪ successful democracy depended on an informed electorate. our country's future depends on

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book called "delimb um." the politics of sex in america. good morning. >> good morning, bill. >> bill: we all stood up at attention here when you said our sex life is on the line. what do you mean by that? really? >> yes, i really do mean that. if -- you know we are going to be screwed. the war on women isn't just a war on women it's a war on sex and sexual freedom, and, you know, women are going to be screwed, men are going to be screwed. women who like men, men who like women, women who like women, men who like men. they have their battleships aimed at us. romney in a number of his policies is trying to undermine the laws and the conditions that allow us to kind of go about our

sex lives without thinking about the government being in our bedroom. >> bill: yeah one of the points you make -- one of the things i got from reading the article is the crazy richard mourdock and his comment about rape he is not isolated. there is a republican core us of voices in all different ways that are trying to redefine or limb when sex is allowed and when it is not allowed. >> absolutely. the sexual fundamentalists like mourdock have captured the republican party. and the republican party is farther right than any party in american history at the exact time that women's rights and birth control and transvaginal ultrasounds and god playing wing man to rapists are at the top of the agenda. romney is a captive of these

people. >> bill: he appointed one of them, paul ryan as his running mate. >> right. they control the republican party. i talk in my book about how they got to a place where they could control the republican party. when he was governor of massachusetts, even though he ran as a so-called moderate he actually did some quite extreme things, such as vetoing legislation that would have provided emergency contraception to rape victims. >> bill: yeah. right. i noticed in your article you mention a legislature in new hampshire who reck menninged that married people practice abstinence until they are ready for children. we know they are against extramarital sex -- or

premarital sex but this is -- this is the old catholic doctrine that sex is only okay if it's for the purpose of having a baby right. >> yeah. >> right. >> bill: so recreational sex, nancy is history, right? >> yes, and no obviously. it will be like pot and alcohol during prohibition. it's illegal. there's some enforcement of it. i think the real problem comes for some people in the reddest states, when romney supreme court first overturns roe v. wade, and then grizwald v connecticut. so for example, today in utah it's a class b mist demeanor for

consenting adults to have sex outside of marriage. they call basically kissing gateway sexual activity. these people are obsessed with sex and not in a good way at all. >> every day i have to pinch myself and remind myself do we are live in 2012? >> bill: in arizona there is a bill in the legislature that would allow your boss -- your girlfriend's boss to fire her for having sex outside of marriage, right? >> yes, that got voted down by -- >> bill: thank god. >> it was during all of the craziness about rush limbaugh's slutgate. so they were about to get a lot of these things threw until they shot off their mouths, and the rest of the country looked up and said oh look at the knee

an der thals running the republican party. >> bill: and this are the guys that are trying to redefine rape, right? saying rape isn't always bad, only if it's forcible rape. that's paul ryan. paul ryan had a bill in the congress to say that only -- an exception to the ban on abortion, only for forcible rape. maybe you can explain, nancy what is the other kind of rape? [ laughter ] >> you know, rape is rape. but the funny thing is, what they are talking about are going back to the way the laws were, really as recently as the 1970s, when the assumption was good girls didn't have sex outside of marriage, and there have any rape victim must have been asking for it. that's the logic behind this redefining rape.

and the assumption behind getting though fun things called abortions. >> bill: right. nancy cohen with her article "screwed." paul ryan the author of the personhood bill, if that went through, then that could lead to condoms being illegal, any kind of birth control being illegal, correct? >> correct. correct. so you wouldn't see condoms made illegal, because, you know technically they are supposed to work. but these people define the pill and the iud as abortion but what you could see in getting used to -- you walk into a grocery store and pharmacy, and there are condoms on the

shelves, if the states pass laws like the texas republican party wants to do, that says under the age 18 it is illegal to have sex. then you are going to have to ask for condoms and prove you are married. so once they eliminate rowe and grizwald, and allowed to pass laws they want to pass, and really damaging effects if they pass these personhood amendments for the birth control that really works in this country. >> bill: final comment. here is what gets me. but i thought republicans had sex too. >> we know mitt romney has had sex at least five times. >> but they only have the right kind of sex.

they only have sex with their wives. they never ever have sex with someone besides their wives, right? >> bill: yeah newt gingrich told me that. [ laughter ] >> yeah. yeah. so what they want to do is control the rest of our lives. they want to control sex based on their theology. >> bill: right. >> they want to get their god up inside us with their small government. >> bill: i tell you, nancy, i wasn't even sure i was going to vote in this election but i am now. you have me fighting mad now. nancy cohen, contributor to "playboy" magazine. thanks, nancy. when we come back the traveling secretary from the obama campaign. she'll be joining us from the road with president obama. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." ♪

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>> announcer: this is the "full court press," the "bill press show," live on your radio, and on current tv. >> bill: here we go. thirty teen minutes before the top of the hour senator sherrod brown, and congressman joe donnelly, the next senator from ohio and the next senator from indiana, both up on the show in the next hour here. president obama back in the white house today for a rare visit to the white house in these last days of the campaign just off of a 48-hour non-stop

swing. that's enough to make the president and workers down right exhausted. but jen is not taking a day off. she joins us on our news line this morning. hi, jen, how are you? >> hi bill. and the president isn't stopping either. >> bill: i know he has a couple of big interviews in the oval office this afternoon. i had you last friday jen out at george mason university. it was fun to run into you. and before the president got up to speak, you said pay close at attention because the president is going to have something to about romneysia, and i didn't know what you were talking about. >> bill thought it was a

country. >> bill: yes, but it has become the theme of the nation right? >> that's right. the president is trying to remind people that mitt romney is hiding from his positions. he talks about this at events across the country, and the crowds are starting to chat back, and he talks about there is a cure which is the affordable health care act. >> bill: yeah it's a way to remind people of how he changes his positions one day to the next. the crowd at george mason got it right away, right? >> they did. >> bill: on a much more serious topic, what -- what do you make

of the fact that yesterday governor romney three times reporters asked him to repudiate his endorsement of richard mourdock in indiana, and mitt romney would not even answer the questions. >> as a well i was just so offended by the comments, and the president was too. and this is a case where you have a candidate who is appearing in anned a for richard mourdock who has made these outrageous comments about rape. and it is just perplexing that he wouldn't back away from that and remind and reassures the american people that that's not what he believes. beyond those outrageous comments, there is still a fundamental difference between president obama's commitment to making sure women can make choices about their own health care and mitt romney's. and this is an opportunity to continue to talk about that and

remind people of that. >> bill: yeah, i thought though president did a good job of putting that in context, that mourdock is not alone. >> that's right. and people have to remember that you have a mitt romney in the white house who said he would be thrilled to overturn roe v. wade. a richard mourdock todd akin -- >> bill: and a paul ryan. >> yeah paul ryan. it's frightening, because these are issues that they fundamentally believe politicians should be able to interject themselves into women's health care. maybe i'm one of the more biased women, but i'm not the only woman who thinks that's an outrageous thing. >> bill: jen psaki, this morning

president obama will be campaigning next week in colorado, wisconsin, and ohio. meanwhile mitt romney is going around now almost telling every crowd. i have got it. it's in the bag. we have already won. where is this -- you know overconfidence? what is the reality? >> oh, god. it's a bluff. i'm 5'10", and you would know that's not true. this is a case of them saying something because they want to push this fake momentum. this absurd momentum story or

narrative that is being pushed by the romney team just isn't backed up. >> bill: and i think the media is starting to catch up to this and the reality is the polls either haven't changed or inched up a little bit for the president in the key battleground states. jen, the way i see it is always the case with the big lie if they say it often enough people will believe it. >> right. and hopefully the american people are smarter than that. >> bill: i think they are. jen thank you so much. appreciate it. and the president at the white house today. really busy schedule and i'll tell you all about it when we come back here on the "full court press." >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." ♪

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and then goes over to ivy street here close to our studios for a couple of hours this afternoon. >> hum. >> bill: and then at 5:00 we'll be back at the white house interviewed by sway callaway of mtv and then interviewed by the urban radio networks. and then back on the campaign trail. >> bill: i'll be up in new york tomorrow talking about this campaign and "the obama hate machine." stay with us. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show."

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perfect storm or even frankenstorm expected to hit the east coast starting this weekend. first we start out with the latest. today's current tv update from lisa ferguson. >> good morning, everybody. there is a lot of money this year's election season and both president obama and mitt romney are on track to raise more than $1 billion each by november 6th. right now the president has already raised more than a billion, and romney is just shy of that. although this month romney does have more cash on hand. a lot of romney's money is coming from wall street and financial firms. obama's donations come more from the tech industry and an army of

grass root supporters. sheldon sheldon sheldon adelson just gave another donation to romney. there is a record-setting number for the pac $12 million is coming from billionaire investor george soros. and remember stephen colbert's super pac, we'll see what he does have that before november 6th. more bill after the break. stay with us. ♪ only time you can get to a polling place. make sure that voting is your highest priority on election

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and comment. you can give us a call at 866-55-press. join us on twitter @bpshow on facebook facebook.com/billpressshow or go to the chat room, current.com/billpress and debate the issues that we are talking about here on the air. so glad have you can with us this morning. and we're pleased to welcome back to the studio to talk about climate change and our rest erich pica great to see you. >> thanks, bill. >> bill: how old are you now? >> we are 100 year old, and

celebrating david brouwers birthday this year. >> bill: i never had the on for of meeting him, but he is the arch drawer of the environmental movement. >> he is. he is what the environmental movement is today. >> bill: and will always be remembered for losing the tax exempt status of the sierra club because he ran full-page newspaper ads, opposing building a dam in the grand canyon and if anything -- to wear as a badge of honor, it is that. how can they be doing this and be tax exempt. >> and in hindsight it is probably the best thing that could have happened to the

sierra club. >> bill: yes, absolutely. and dan henning peter ogburn and siprion bolling are here as always. my column is up today, i'm really proud of this one, trying to refute the myth that democrats are bad for business and the title is "the democratic party means good business," and the facts actually support that. i have to tell you erich yesterday the big news of the day was general colin powell endorsed president obama yesterday. john sununu had his own ideas on why colin powell black man would endorse barack obama. >> i do like the fact that colin

powell's boss has endorsed mitt romney all along, and frankly when you take a look at colin powell you have to wonder whether that is an endorsement based on issues or whether he has a slightly different reason for endorsing president obama. >> what reason might that be? >> bill: when you look at colin powell. >> yeah. >> bill: have you ever heard a more racist comment in your life. >> and john sununu this great american, he was born in cuba. >> bill: but here is what gets me -- i mean when is mitt romney going to stand up and say sununu, shut up, right? >> how many times has this now been that john sununu has said something wildly offensive and/or dumb. >> bill: he said that maybe

president obama ought to learn to be an american. >> yeah. >> bill: but what an insult to think that colin powell would only endorse president obama because he is black. >> not because of the war, iraq afghanistan, went after al-qaeda. >> there is that. >> bill: got osama bin laden. in fact colin powell when he did endorse president obama he rattled off all of the reasons why. coming up senator sherrod brown up for reelection in ohio joe donnelly, democratic senate candidate in indiana, who is going to be the next democratic senator from indiana, no doubt about it will be joining us a little bit later erich pica is here to kick off the hour but first -- >> announcer: this is the "full court press." >> a big change coming to the

nba, david stern announcing he is retiring in a year and a half after 30 years. >> good. good riddance. he overstayed his welcome. >> adam silver will take over. david stern is the longest-serving commissioner all of pro sports. he says he is leaving the league in a very good place partly because of the labor agreement they reached with the players. >> bill: that is a long time to be there. >> look, he -- he was -- the commissioner when we had michael jordan magic johnson, larry bird, and he told players how they can dress -- he had some really dumb rules. >> bill: i just want to tell people i do not intend to do this job for 28 years. >> abc reports that taylor swift

broke up this week with connor kennedy. taylor spent a lot of time this past summer at the kennedy compound, and reportedly even bought a home there in the neighbor for herself. no word on why they split. she does have a new album out in stores this week. >> she will write a song about it, and that will win a million awards. >> absolutely. >> madison bumgartner was on fire for the giants. and help propel the giants to a 2-0 shoutout victory over the tigers. john miller with the final call last night. >> he has got it! [ cheers and applause ] >> and the giants have shut out the tigers in game two. and they take the first two

games, and hold their home field advantage. >> and they head to detroit tomorrow night for game three. >> they look great. >> bill: they do. tomorrow is a crucial game. detroit has to win tomorrow night. >> i think you are right. if they lose three in a row psychologically they are screwed. >> bill: right. erich headline caught my attention this morning in the new york "times," the headline candidates agree world is warming, but talk stops there. whatever happened to the issue of global warming? >> we're trying to figure that out right now, bill. we have gone through four debates and no mention of climate change, global warming -- >> bill: no question -- no moderator asked the question -- >> no questions. no comments from the candidates -- >> bill: candidates never raised

the issue, they are talking about energy policy -- >> they talked about who can drill the most in the united states, who can mine the most coal. there is some mentions of wind and solar, but no context of this great human threat that president obama in 2007, 2008, 2009, said that he is going to lead and solve this issue. there is nothing there. >> bill: why -- first of all does mitt romney -- this says candidates agree world is warming. so mitt romney agrees? >> he doesn't believe that humans are responsible. and as part of this whole romneysia thing, he can lick his finger stick it in the wind and see which way the wind is blowing.

because he has gone both ways. >> bill: that's the contrast that i see, right away 2008 this was -- number 1, it was a big issue, right? >> yeah. >> bill: and both candidates agreed that it was real manmade and that they would do something about it as president. why -- things haven't gotten better. >> no, they are getting worse. we're seeing record amount of drought. we have seen colorado on fire. we have seen two-thirds of the country just being hammered by extreme weather being fuelled by climate change. >> bill: yeah, so why the silence? >> i think between the koch bothers, and the hundreds of millions of dollars they are dumping into the president

campaign, we saw in 2010 if you were a republican or democratic that came out strong for climate change, they would target you and kick you out of office. and there has just been this chilling change that is basically buying the silence. >> it wasn't that long ago that newt gingrich sat down on the sofa with nancy pelosi and they both agreed we need to do something. and then when newt was running for president, he called it the dumbest thing he had ever done. >> uh-huh. and the science is irrefutable -- >> bill: koch brothers. >> yeah that's so scary, if only someone can write a book about that. >> bill: as a matter of fact here it is "the obama hate machine."

but it's not just them it's all of the lobbyists, and they have managed almost to make it the third rail. >> this is the first time since 1988 -- 1988 we had dan quayle talking about climate change in the presidential debates. >> bill: did he really? >> yes they talked about how climate change is a threat. we have to do something about it. this is the first time in 24 years our presidential or vice president candidates have not mentioned climate change in the debate watched by 10s of millions of people. >> bill: maybe just maybe the survival of the planet is so important that it should not be

a political football. maybe this is something that we should all agree on, right? that we want to save our planet? >> yeah. i agree obviously on this. there has been some argument that we were not talking about climate change during the debates because it politicizing it. but how do we mobilize to do something about it? >> bill: yeah. also the other reason that argument is bogus is because what the presidential campaign is all about, is telling the american people what your agenda is for the next four years. what are you going to make your priorities? what are you going to fight for? what is most important? and if they are not talking about climate change then it's pretty sure they are not going to do a damn thing about it.

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